Motorola DROID OTA schedule

Here’s what we’ve got: a clear explanation from a VZW connect that outlines how the OTA updates work for the Motorola DROID. At noon today, approximately 1,000 people received the notification to update their handset. At around midnight this evening, 9,000 more will receive it. After the initial 10,000, there is a 48-hour waiting period. No one after that receives anything until December 10th at 12AM, which will be 200,000 people. It will continue at 200,000 devices a day until everyone is updated.

And they’ve sold how many units?! Good Lord. I understand their reasoning on a slow release but I also understand I’m not used to (nor good at) waiting for updates. As a (former) BlackBerry user who always grabbed and updated the newest OS from the BlackBerry Forums, making me wait to have my DROID update breaches “cruel and unusual punishment” and teeters on pure torture. I’ll be chomping at the bit until my beloved DROID updates … HURRY! =-) ho ho ho

Aaron

Got mine earlier today…. I guess I was pretty lucky!

grrr

The new unlock screen is not as cool as the current one.

ironosity

Post a pic!

grrr

I didn’t get the update yet, but pics are posted elsewhere.

nowadroidfan

How do they decide who gets the updates first? Is it based on time/date of activation? I want mine updated now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perspective

“In a world of ‘doesn’t make you wait for updates,’ Droid Does.”

KHAN

Does your phone torture you by releasing updates to your friends while you wait? Droid does.

hahahhahahha you wish! you must be thinking about your service, AT&T. Verizon on the other hand is smart and having 10,000 DROIDS test to make sure everything is okay before they release it to the other 790,000 in ONE DAY! they are still sticking to their original update schedule

Sean

It’s called, “let’s be careful and make sure this doesn’t brick a bunch of phones”.

hahaha

which is a smart idea, they are still sticking around the dec 11, but it is always better to be safe then sorry!

http://www.jessepotter.net Jesse

I’m hoping for those with the update to start chiming in on improvements.

pooch

They are approaching 1 million units sold. So this wouldn’t be a month, more like 4 to 5 days.

Pooch

CJ

Bitch & moan, bitch & moan. STFU and wait peasants. You’ll get it when you get it and you’ll like what you get or I’ll flog all of you!

scootle

the first “10,000-hope-we-don’t-brick-your-phone-lucky” people… :)

jo jo

could be for support reasons. you notify all people at once, and call centers get bombarded with too many calls to handle.

start with small sample. see how many extra calls you get. if not impacting service levels, then bump up how many you do the next day, and so on. even if there are no bugs with the update process. people still call or open tickets cause they don’t know like us.

http://twitter.com/tarund Tarun D.

Verizon is doing the right thing by doing incremental updates. The project manager at Verizon for this OS update is doing this correctly.

Being a systems engineer, I’m confident enough to say that Google developed an algorithm to chose the 10,000 most active users on the Droid and pushed the update to those users. It would make no sense to push an OS update to a user that uses his/her phone for only a few hours as to a user who is using it every 30-45 minutes, or more.

This helps with testing multiple applications and users response to the updates. Meaning, the Droid does collect that data and I’m sure it is collected by Google since your Google account is linked to the phone.

Putting my horrible customer service experience aside with Verizon and will never consider them as my choice of wireless carrier, Verizon is doing this the right way. Good luck to the Droid users.

-From a Droid user for only two weeks-

3d

“At around midnight this evening…”
Uhhh, WHAT TIME ZONE???
Geez, BGR is so useless sometimes.

Migs

The one and only timezone for America, EST.

mark

just got my upgrade and my phone cant make calls …. voice is shot.

Aaron

Bummed the update didn’t fix the Infiniti/Nissan Bluetooth issues…
– phone seems snappier
– several programs were uninstalled after the update?
– Voice calls lost a bit of the echo
– battery life…. we’ll see?
– power widget and calendar Widgets changed (for the better)
Ummmm that’s about all I can tell for now

Aaron

It’s 2.0.1

john

I can’t wait…. what’s up with the new lock screen? I wish you could get to the lock screen with the shutter button too.

Aaron

Forgot to mention the camera! Much much improved! Speed has increased quite a bit

Aaron

Not sure why the time isn’t centered now on the lock screen?

William Hartmann

I’m staying up until Midnight hoping I get it

Suzie

Why the bizarre schedule? Google can’t handle the load of their own users ALREADY? (What happens when (if) they get 20,000,000 more users?)

Or is it be Google doesn’t trust their own update. Is it loaded with bugs????